Shayes Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 8
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 2
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Shayes Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Shayes family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 3
Footman 1
Printer Compositor 1
Blacksmith 1
Labourer 1
Labourer Wife 1
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Shayes

Name Census Frequency
William Shayes 11
Alfred Shayes 7
Charles Shayes 7
Mary Shayes 7
Florence Shayes 4
Alan Shayes 3
Clara Shayes 3
Edgar Shayes 3
Eliza Shayes 3
Emmeline Shayes 3
George Shayes 3
Henry Shayes 3
John Shayes 3
Alice Shayes 2
Amy Shayes 2
Catherine Shayes 2
Emilie Shayes 2
Gertrude Shayes 2
Hannah Shayes 2
Hilda Shayes 2
May Shayes 2
Rose Shayes 2
Thomas Shayes 2
Violet Shayes 2
Fanny Shayes 1

Shayes Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Shays 83% 127
2 Shayes 100% 115

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The surname Shayes is the 2nd most popular variant of Shays.

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